Artist

Robert Newell

born Burlington, NJ 1822-died Philadelphia, PA 1897
Also known as
  • R. Newell
Born
Burlington, New Jersey, United States
Died
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Biography

From 1855 to the mid-1890s, Newell recorded important events in Philadelphia, such as the 1864 Great Central Fair for the U.S. Sanitary Commission. His reputation as a landscape photographer persuaded Clarence Howard Clark, president of the banking and insurance firm, E. W. Clark and Company, to commission Newell to make a photographic portfolio of the family's West Philadelphia estate, Chestnutworld. the house no longer exists, but part of his vast property survives at Clark Park.

Merry A. Foresta American Photographs: The First Century (Washington, D.C.: National Museum of American Art with the Smithsonian Institution Press, 1996)

Works by this artist (4 items)

Esther Bubley, Beer Drinkers at the Sea Grill, Washington, DC, 1943, gelatin silver print, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase made possible by Mrs. Lawrence S. Lesser and Stephen Seymour Thomas, 1990.20.2, © 1943, Esther Bubley
Beer Drinkers at the Sea Grill, Washington, DC
Artist
Date1943
gelatin silver print
Not on view
Esther Bubley, Passengers on a Bus at the Greyhound Terminal in New York City, 1947, gelatin silver print, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase made possible by Mrs. Alexander Hamilton Rice and Linda Adair Miller, 1990.20.3, © 1947, Esther Bubley
Passengers on a Bus at the Greyhound Terminal in New York…
Artist
Date1947
gelatin silver print
Not on view
Esther Bubley, Soldiers (couple at bus terminal), 1943, gelatin silver print, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase made possible by Mrs. Lawrence S. Lesser and Stephen Seymour Thomas, 1990.20.1, © 1943, Esther Bubley
Soldiers (couple at bus terminal)
Artist
Date1943
gelatin silver print
Not on view
Esther Bubley, Esso Research Center of the Standard Oil Development Company, Linden, New Jersey, 1945, vintage silver gelatin print, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Richard and Andrea Kremer, 2022.57.2
Esso Research Center of the Standard Oil Development…
Artist
Date1945
vintage silver gelatin print
Not on view